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This volume brings together articles written by experts in the thriving field of language teacher education from a variety of geographical and institutional contexts, with a particular focus on EFL.
Review text: This book is an important contribution to research on multilingualism: the author does not only discuss theoretical aspects of this research field but also attempts to verify theoretical premises with respect to their empirical validity.(Dieter Wolff, Bergische Universität Wuppertal).
This enquiry into the principles and practice of reading literature brings together insights from cognitive studies, literary theory, empirical literature studies, learning and teaching research and higher education research. Reading is conceptualised as an active process of meaning-making that is determined by subjective as well as contextual factors and guided by a sense of purpose. This sense of purpose, part of a professional and conscious approach to reading, is the central element in the model of reading that this study proposes. As well as a conceptual aim, this model also has pedagogical power and serves as the basis for a number of critical and creative exercises geared towards developing literary reading strategies and strategic reading competences in general. These activities demonstrate how the main tenets of the study can be put into practice within the context of a particular institution of higher education.
Unter «vertikaler Variation» wird Sprachvariation verstanden, die sich aus den unterschiedlichen Fachsprachlichkeitsgraden von Texten ergibt. Der Autor klärt zunächst, was darunter im Kontext der Fachsprachen- und Terminologieforschung und im Hinblick auf den Fachwortschatz zu verstehen ist. Von diesen theoretischen Überlegungen ausgehend wird ein Korpus von Börsenberichten aus argentinischen Tageszeitungen ausgewertet, um auf diese Weise an konkreten Texten zu überprüfen, in welchem Ausmaß die immer wieder vorgebrachten Annahmen und Urteile bezüglich dieser Variationsform zutreffen. Das Ergebnis zeigt, dass einige allgemein verbreitete Meinungen zu diesem Thema zumindest stark relativiert werden müssen.
Werbung ist als kaum mehr überschaubares Forschungsfeld von Kommunikationswissenschaft und Linguistik nur «scheinbar» ausgereizt. Aufgrund der immer stärkeren Präsenz von Marketing- und Promotionsstrategien, der Zunahme der Wirtschaftskommunikation in allen gesellschaftlichen Sektoren quer über den Globus, der technologisch und medial bedingten Differenzierung in immer wieder neue Formen, Typen und Textsorten sowie der Aufwendung der verschiedensten Codes und Stilmittel kann diese lifestyle-geprägte «Kunst des Alltags» nie genug untersucht werden. In diesem Band, dessen Beiträge zu einem Großteil einer Sektion der Jahrestagung der «Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik» (GAL),...
Since 1969 (Vol.1 1968) the German Association of University Teachers of English has published the series of English and American Studies in German founded by Professor Werner Habicht. In these, scholars from the German-speaking world present in English their research in English and American Studies. The summaries report on university publications (doctoral and professorial theses), stand-alone book publications and collected volumes advancing the discipline (Festschriften, yearbooks, conference proceedings).
This book looks at the discursive construction of European identities in a variety of institutional and non-institutional contexts and through a variety of social and political actors. Its multilevel and interdisciplinary approach - rooted in the Discourse-Historical tradition of Critical Discourse Analysis - allows for a comparison of identity constructions at different levels of Europe's social and political organisation and in different modes of communication. The book analyses discourses as diverse as those of the EU politicians, of Europe's national media as well as of migrants living in Europe. It offers a set of integrated models and analytical procedures which bring to the fore the inherent dynamism and complexity of both 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' European identity constructions.
Reviews are an important aspect of scholarly discussion because they help filter out which works are relevant in the yearly flood of publications and are thus influential in determining how a work is received. The IBR, published again since 1971 as an interdisciplinary, international bibliography of reviews, it is a unique source of bibliographical information. The database contains entries on over 1.2 million book reviews of literature dealing primarily with the humanities and social sciences published in 6,820, mainly European scholarly journals. Reviews of more than 560,000 scholarly works are listed. The database increases every year by 60,000 entries. Every entry contains the following information: On the work reviewed: author, title On the review: reviewer, periodical (year, edition, page, ISSN), language, subject area (in German, English, Italian) Publisher, address of journal